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Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jul 15 15:45:26 UTC 2005


Daniel Vogel wrote:
>> Your mail server cannot connect to the SMTP server at
>> another.external.machine.
>>
>> See if you can do it manually:
>> $ telnet another.external.machine smtp
> 
> 
> well, as i blocked telnet port on the other machine

This is connecting to the smtp port, not the telnet port.

> i connect by ssh, 
> then on the same machine i telnet localhost smtp and it works (just to 
> be sure because i set up that machine), so the machine does have smtp 
> working.

Doesn't mean it's listening on any address other than localhost though.

Please try:

$ telnet another.external.machine smtp

from the machine that has the mail stuck in the queue.

Paul.




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